Molly Crabapple

Quick Facts

Full Name	Molly Crabapple
Occupation	Artist
Date Of Birth	Sep 13, 1983(1983-09-13)
Age	41
Birthplace	Queens
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Virgo

Molly Crabapple Biography

Molly Crabapple is one of the most popular and richest Artist who was born on September 13, 1983 in Queens, New York, United States. Crabapple employs a crosshatch style for illustration, based on Arthur L. Guptill’s art technique in Rendering in Pen and Ink (1976), first published as Drawing with Pen and Ink (28). Flemish Renaissance painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525-1569), English artist Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898), French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1964-1901), Russian-American artist Zoetica Ebb and American photographer Clayton Cubitt are some of her influences. Fred Harper is an American illustrator.

Crabapple teamed up with Canadian singer Kim Boekbinder, and Jim Batt to create the crowdsourced stop-motion animated film I Have Your Heart (2012). The film’s soundtrack is “The Organ Donor’sMarch”, by Boekbinder. In April 2011, they raised $17,000 USD via Kickstarter thanks to over 400 backers.

In September 2011, Crabapple was living in a studio near Zuccotti Park. Occupy Wall Street protesters had begun to use the Park as a camp to stage their movement, artists began creating posters and Crabapple decided to contribute work and engage in the movement. “Before Occupy I felt like using my art for activist causes was exploitive of activist causes,” she told the Village Voice. “I think what Occupy let me do was it allowed me to instead of just donating money to politics or just going to marches, it allowed me to engage my art in politics.” Artists and journalists who had come from all over the world to report on the protests were using Crabapple’s apartment as an “impromptu salon” for the Occupy movement. In Discordia (2012), British journalist Laurie Penny remembered how “Occupy Wall Street had set up camp two streets away from Crabapple’s apartment in Manhattan and we’d just spent a sleepless week documenting arrests. Molly perched at her desk churning out protest posters and handing them to activists to copy and wheat-paste all over the financial district…After three days, the word went out that there was an apartment near the protest camp where you could find hot drinks, basic medical attention and a place to charge your gadgets and file copy. The flat became a temporary sanctuary for stray activists and journalists” “I started doing protest posters,” Crabapple recalled. “And in doing these, I found my voice.” Author Matt Taibbi called Crabapple “Occupy’s greatest artist”, noting the use of the “vampire squid” theme in her Occupy artwork. Crabapple, a fan of Taibbi’s writing, had read his 2009 Rolling Stone article, “The Great American Bubble Machine”. In the article, Taibbi referred to Goldman Sachs as “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.” When Crabapple used Taibbi’s metaphor as a stencil depicting a vampire squid and released it for anyone to use, it went viral throughout the Occupy movement.

In 2012 Crabapple was one of several artists commissioned by CNN to illustrate the theme of power for a digital art gallery pertaining to the 2012 Presidential election, as well as the fundamental forces that drive debates over controversial issues such as money, health race and gender. Crabapple created the illustration “Big Fish Eat Little Fish Eat Big Fish” for the gallery.

Crabapple’s illustrations have been featured in a variety of comics, many times with John Leavitt. Backstage (2008) was a webcomic by Act-i-vate in which they illustrated the story of Scarlett O’Herring, a fire-eater. Scarlett Takes Manhattan, a graphic novel published in 2009 by Fugu Press is a prequel. DC Comics released Puppet Makers (2011) as a digital comic. It depicts an alternate history about the industrial revolution, and the court at Versailles. Crabapple also illustrated Strange Tales vol. 2 and Girl Comics vol. 2 and Girl Comics Vol. 2.

Molly Crabapple Net Worth

Molly Crabapple is one of the richest Artist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Molly Crabapple 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Molly Crabapple was born as Jennifer Caban in 1983 and is a writer and artist living in New York. She has been a VICE contributing editor and has also written for The New York Times and The Paris Review, Vanity Fair and CNN. Her books include Drawing Blood (Harper Collins 2015), Discordia (with Laurie Penny), a memoir about the Greek economic crisis, as well as the art books Week in Hell (2012) and Devil in the Details. She speaks regularly to audiences all over the globe, at institutions like The Museum of Modern Art, The London School of Economics and Harvard. Her works are part of the Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collections, The Barjeel Art Foundation, and the New-York Historical Society.

A. V. Phibes, an illustrator, founded Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School in 2005. It was a burlesque-life-drawing class. Artists may consume alcohol while sketching burlesque models and may play art games at a variety of venues, from bars to museums. It was started in Melbourne, Australia by an artist who inquired about establishing a Dr. Sketchy’s. There were 150 licensed Dr. Sketchy’s names as of 2010.

In September 2011 Crabapple engaged in a week long performance art piece title Week in Hell. She locked herself inside a hotel room, covered every inch of the walls with paper, and proceeded to spend the next five days filling every inch of the canvas with illustrations. The project was funded using Kickstarter, garnering 745 backers and over $20k in funds. In pitching the work she explained “I’m interested in what happens when an artist leaves their studio, their cliches, and their comfort zone and draws beyond the limits of their endurance.” Every day of the endeavour was live-streamed to all backers. During the week she was continuously visited by friends and fellow artists. A book documenting the project was released March 2012 also titled Art of Molly Crabapple Volume 1: Week in Hell.

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In 2015, Crabapple, Boekbinder, and Batt collaborated with the Equal Justice Initiative to create the video “Slavery to Mass Incarceration”. Crabapple illustrates the animations, paired with Executive Director Bryan Stevenson’s narration, which depict the history between mass enslavement and modern-day mass incarceration.

Facts & Trivia

Molly Ranked on the list of most popular Artist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Molly Crabapple celebrates birthday on September 13 of every year.

In December 2015 Harper Collins published Crabapple’s illustrated memoir, Drawing Blood. The book covers her life from a rebellious childhood in Far Rockaway, Queens to her current illustrated journalism projects. Each chapter focuses on a period of her life, notably, her time as a model, her tenure as house artist for the New York and London night club, The Box, and her involvement with the Occupy movement and other post-financial crisis protests.

Top Facts about Molly Crabapple

1. Molly Crabapple is an American writer, artist, and activist.
2. She gained recognition for her intricate and provocative artwork.
3. Crabapple co-founded the art collective “The Illuminator” in 2012.
4. Her illustrations have been featured in major publications like The New York Times.
5. She has written memoirs, including “Drawing Blood” published in 2015.
6. Crabapple’s work often explores themes of politics, social justice, and inequality.
7. She has collaborated with notable figures such as Jay-Z and Kim Boekbinder.
8. In 2013, she was awarded the Front Page Award for Cartooning/Graphic Illustration.
9. Crabapple has been a vocal critic of government surveillance and police brutality.
10. She actively uses her platform to advocate for marginalized communities.

Is Molly Crabapple Puerto Rican?

Molly Crabapple was born Jennifer Caban in 1983 in Queens, New York City, New York to a Puerto Rican father and a Jewish mother , who was the daughter of a Belarusian immigrant.

What is the genre of drawing blood by Molly Crabapple?

Genres

What kind of creative nonfiction is drawing blood by Molly Crabapple?

In ‘Drawing Blood,’ A Life Of Art And Action Artist Molly Crabapple’s lavishly illustrated memoir chronicles her youth in New York and her work illustrating the Occupy Wall Street movement, protests in Greece and everyday life in Syria.

What is memoir in Creative Nonfiction?

A memoir is a form of creative nonfiction in which an author recounts experiences from his or her life. Memoirs usually take the form of a narrative, The terms memoir and autobiography are commonly used interchangeably, and the distinction between these two genres is often blurred.